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Practical Tips for Oracle Business Intelligence
Applications 11g Implementations

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Introduction
• Michael Rainey
- Principal Consultant
- Oracle Data Integration expert
‣ GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator
- Blogger, instructor, speaker
- Oracle ACE
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About Rittman Mead
• Oracle Gold partner
- World leading specialist partner for technical excellence, solutions
delivery and innovation in Oracle BI
- Provide consulting, training, managed services for customers worldwide
• 100+ consultants including 1 Oracle ACE Director and 4 Oracle ACEs
- All experts in Oracle BI, DW, EPM and Analytics tech
- Skills in broad range of supporting Oracle tools: OBIEE, OBIA, ODIEE,
Essbase, Oracle OLAP, GoldenGate, Exadata, Endeca
• Blog: www.rittmanmead.com/blog Twitter: @rittmanmead
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What are we going to discuss today?
• Practical Tips…
- Installation and configuration
- LDAP integration
- High Availability
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Extracts
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Why?
• Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7+
- Still “new” on the market for BI Apps customers
- Oracle Data Integrator (and GoldenGate) integration
introduces new concepts
- The 7.9.6.xx version will no longer be enhanced
• We can all learn from past experiences
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Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g
• Complete, prebuilt BI solutions
- Pre-packaged data models, ETL, reports and dashboards, built
using OBIEE and Oracle Data Integrator 11g
- Data sources include Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards,
Siebel, and SAP
- Modules such as Human Resources Analytics, Financial
Analytics, Project Analytics, and Student Information Analytics
can be purchased
• Conformed dimensions allow the use of data across modules
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Oracle BI Applications Architecture
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Oracle BI Applications Architecture
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Oracle BI Applications Architecture
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Installation and configuration
• Run through the GUI once, then script…script…and
script!
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Tip: Script it!

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Why script?
• Create a repeatable process
- Simplifies subsequent environment builds
- Sandbox, Development, Test, Production, etc will follow
the same build process
- Build upon previous scripts as patches are installed or
new requirements are discovered
• Documentation writes itself… well, sort of
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Why run the GUI installer first?
• Work through the parameters,
order of steps, etc
• Generate a response file or
build a script
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Response file
• Pre-filled parameters in a text (.rsp) file
• Standard approach to “silent” installations
• Can be created for most install or configuration processes
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Configuration
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Tip: Boost performance

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Configure the ODI Agent JVM
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Increase Connection Pools & Database Processes
• Each session in ODI is a new connection to the
repository and data warehouse
- Ensure the concurrent
database processes are set
to allow plenty of connections
- Up the connection pool
max capacity
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ODI Agent Sessions
• Default is 10! That’s not gonna fly…
• Update in ODI Studio or Console and set to a value that
will meet performance needs
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LDAP configuration
• WebLogic Server embedded
LDAP - setup out of the box
• External LDAP can then be
integrated during configuration
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Tip: External LDAP gotchas

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LDAP configuration
• OBIEE
- Uses Oracle Virtual Directory
- Embedded LDAP users (“biadmin”) and external LDAP
users can both access the same resources
• ODI
- Only one “type” of external authentication can be used at
a time
- Creates challenges when using the embedded LDAP users
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LDAP configuration
• Amazingly, the ODI Agent can still connect using
either an embedded LDAP or external LDAP user
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External Authentication with Oracle Data Integrator
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If ODI Supervisor user is…
• …an embedded LDAP account (as is default), you
must add external user via the ODI repository DB
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If ODI Supervisor user is…
• …an embedded LDAP account (as is default), you
must add external user via the ODI repository DB
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If ODI Supervisor user is…
• …an external LDAP account, you must change
credential mapping in WebLogic
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High Availability
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High Availability - ODI Agents
• Active-active High Availability
- Load balancer handles HTTP
web request to the agent
• One node acts as scheduler
- Coherence handles schedule
failover
- New sessions begin on new
node, but previous in-process
iterations will not continue
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Data Extract
Three ways to extract source data
• JDBC mode
• Database link mode
• SDS mode
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Tip: Choose wisely

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Data Extract
• JDBC mode
- Default method for data extraction
- Streams records through the ODI agent for datatype conversion
- Useful for heterogeneous source/target
• Database link mode
- Use the database link native functionality in Oracle database
• SDS mode
- GoldenGate data replication extracts transactions and loads into target Source
Dependent Data Store (SDS) schema
- Useful if network latency is high or volume of transactions high
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GoldenGate - Data Replication - SDS Mode
• Oracle GoldenGate
- High-performance data replication
- Minimal impact on source and target systems
• Why use GoldenGate?
- High transaction rate
- Network latency an issue
- Need ability to delete from target
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Oracle GoldenGate
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Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle BI Applications 11g
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Disaster Recovery
If the reporting and analytics generated by BI Apps is critical
to your business, make sure it’s available!
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Tip: DR can be simple

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Disaster Recovery Architecture
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Disaster Recovery Architecture
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Disaster Recovery Failover and Switchover Simplified
• Update Global CNAMEs
• Switch primary database via DataGuard
• Update the Web Catalog and Application Role assignments
• Start NodeManager, OHS, WebLogic AdminServer
• Update Embedded LDAP User GUID in ODI (if necessary)
• Start BI and ODI Managed Servers
• Update and Deploy the RPD
• Start the BI Services
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Reviewing the Tips
• Practical Tips…
- Installation and configuration
‣ Script everything!
‣ Increase sessions and JVM settings for performance improvements
- LDAP integration
‣ Watch out for those “gotchas” around the ODI agent user
- High Availability
‣ Just do it…but also, understand how it works
- Data Extracts
‣ Pick your type based on source-to-target latency and volume of transactions
- Disaster Recovery
‣ Simplify with DataGuard and CNAMEs
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Questions?
• Blogs:
- www.rittmanmead.com/category/biapps
- blogs.oracle.com/biapps/
• Contact:
- info@rittmanmead.com
- michael.rainey@rittmanmead.com
• Twitter
- @rittmanmead
- @mRainey
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